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MAGHINE FOR PRINTING OR-MOLDING BUTTER. No. 354,985. Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

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PERLEY L. KIMBALD, OF BELLOWS FALLS, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR TO THE VERMONT FARM MACHINE GOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING OR MOLDING BUTTER.

EC FICAT N forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,985, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed January 29. 1886. Serial No. 190,218. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERLEY L. KIMBALL, of Bellows Falls, in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Printing or Molding Butter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it apro pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of machines in which butter is printed or molded to shape, and has for its object the predetermining of the weight of the quantity of butter in every print without the need of actually weighing the same, the machine having devices whereby it may be set or adjusted to print a given weight every timesay, for instance, a pound, two pounds, or any other desired weight, as may be needed; and my invention consists in novel devices, as herein- 2 5 after described.

I will describe and illustrate my invention as applied to a butter-mold of the style patented to M. T. Nesbitt, March 4, 1879, No. 22,970.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the ma- .chine with my improvements thereon; Fig. 2, a side view of the same, but of a reduced size.

As is well known the lever A is worked by hand to force the follower or plunger B up 3 5 ward in the box C,which is constituted of the uprights D D, cross-pieces E E, and the hinged cover F, and G is a spring-latch to hold down Kis athumb-screw,which is passed through the top of the bench and projects through a longitudinal slot in the rod J, and L L are adjusting nuts or washers placed one on the upper and one on the under side of this rod, and whereby when the thumb screw is turned the inner end of the rod may be raised or lowered to the desired position. The slot j in therod J must beof such length as to permit the rod to be drawn out when desired far enough to release it from liability of engagementfwith the piece I, and when so withdrawn it allows the plunger to be moved farther upward and to raise the butter out of the box or hopper.

M is a cover or clapper arranged to cover at willan opening, N, made in one of the uprights D near its top.

The thumb-screw K, by reason of its adj usting vertically the position of the rod J, and thereby restlicting the upward movement of the plunger, serves to gage the print or butter in the box to the right thickness for printing any desired quantity, and consequently any desired weight for each cake or print.

The operation is as follows: Suppose, for ex- .ample, it be desired to print butter of a single pound weight. I first close the hole N and then commence by taking a pound, which has been previously accurately weighed, and place it in the box and then close and fasten the lid F, I then pull back the rod J,'and by pressing down the lever A press the butter into shape, and then push back the rod J into place over the stop-piece I and adjust the thumb-screw K at that point. The press is therefore now set for future use for printing a pound of butter every time and for any period of time without any necessity of weighing the butter, for

its sizein the box determines the weight, which had been ascertained by actual weighing of the first pound before it was placed in the box. 0 The cover M is now pushed aside from the opening or hole N, and if there shall have been placed in the box' or hopper any more than a pound of butter the excess will have been forced through this hole. As an equiva- 5 lent 0f the cover M a plug or cork may be used for the hole N. While the inner end of the. slide-rod J is in position to arrest the upward movement of the plunger, of course the latter cannot be moved upward beyond the point at which the rod had been previously set to hold or restrain it; consequently the measurement and the weight of the butter as it is molded and printed will always be the same until the devices are set anew for some other size and weight, the butter'coming out of the box of the same exact Weight as before.

It will be seen that by my invention the machine becomes practically a self weighing or gaging machine, and this weighing or gaging is etfected by thevery act of printing or mold- 2. In combination with the plunger having a stop piece thereon, the sliderod J and thumb-screw K, serving to adjust said rod vertically, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The means described for ascertaining the weight of butter by the act of printing or molding the same, consisting of a box for holding the butter, a plunger having a non-adjustable stop thereon, a lever to raise the plunger, and a slide adapted to be moved endwise and to be vertically adjustable at its end and to control the height to which the plunger may be moved, the parts being combined substantially as set forth.

PERLEY L. KIMEALL.

Vitnesses:

A. J. HoLLEY, A. R. SLADER. 

